Hi,
I have a handful of contact sensors on Windows and doors. Is there anyway to simply have alexa announce that a window is open or closed? the only way I can figure out is add the devices to the alexa echo skill. And inside the alexa app creating a routine, but that is very cumbersome because it only works one way and with one device per routine.
Im also wanting to create a trigger to turn off and on the AC if a window is open for longer than 15 minutes. Whats the best way to create that across all windows?
Add the desired contact sensors as triggers to a Rule Machine rule, have a delay, if desired, in case you want to allow brief opening of a window or door, (or, better yet, a cancelable wait for all of the trigger contacts to be closed), then, if any trigger contacts are still open, send a notification that %device% is open, or turn on A/C.
By your problem description, I believe you want to trigger on “open”, not changed. Rule Machine is concurrent, and you can get multiple threads running the rule each time a trigger event occurs. That’s why I wrote what I did, so you get into the rule for each sensor only when it opens, don’t get out until the sensor closes.
